Pith Number

pith:FHWXXKMW

pith:1996:FHWXXKMW5BPG75KY5XWFABT2DS

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Quantum Theory of Gravity I: Area Operators

Abhay Ashtekar, Jerzy lewandowski

arxiv:gr-qc/9602046 v2 · 1996-02-23 · gr-qc

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A matrix free action of the Ashtekar-Lewandowski volume operator of loop quantum gravity

Quantum Geometry from Area Fluctuations

A matrix free action of the Ashtekar-Lewandowski volume operator of loop quantum gravity

Indefinite probabilities in quantum spacetime: A deepening of unpredictability

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T17:25:37.619845Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

29ed7ba996e85e6ff558edec50067a1c854d4dad5768fb79f84b092a5733fecb

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9602046 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9602046v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9602046 · pith_short_12: FHWXXKMW5BPG · pith_short_16: FHWXXKMW5BPG75KY · pith_short_8: FHWXXKMW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FHWXXKMW5BPG75KY5XWFABT2DS \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 29ed7ba996e85e6ff558edec50067a1c854d4dad5768fb79f84b092a5733fecb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f3f19cd882fe151ae4f75b2b08b5aceb6ffce550d59a5dd670247d57b48ff840",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1996-02-23T20:29:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "73f48d5a0804dcf7fd14a0352e231a646a003d52adbc63992bb561e0378820a9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9602046",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}